Mayor's hospital stay extended few more days

Naperville Mayor George Pradel was in good spirits Thursday but not ready to return home after a scheduled heart procedure Monday, his daughter said.

Carol Pradel said doctors were not yet ready to discharge him from Edward Hospital in Naperville. She said her father may be released Friday or Saturday.

"They just want to be sure he's good enough to go home," she said.

Doctors inserted a stent into an artery where they had detected some blockage. The mayor underwent open-heart surgery in 1993, and the latest blockage was discovered after a routine treadmill test, Carol Pradel said.

She said her father, who is near the end of his third four-year term, needs to change his lifestyle and eat a healthier diet.

"It will be a family project," she said. "We want him around for a long time."